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Series 4, Episode 7 - Dr Julie Smith
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Dr Julie Smith, Jessica Stone
Duration 39m
Clinical psychologist and author Dr Julie Smith joins Jess to share some of the practical wisdom from her bestselling book Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Want to know one of the most versatile tools to have in your mental health tool kit? Do you ever wish you could summon motivation when you need it most? Julie warns us of the pitfalls of chas...
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Series 4, Episode 8 - Annie Aldington
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Annie Aldington, Jessica Stone
Duration 37m
Annie Aldington has voiced hundreds of audiobooks, and among them are some of the most popular titles in the Listening Books collection, including novels by Dilly Court, Martina Cole, Katie Price, Aoife Walsh, and Kitty Neale. Here Annie tells us how she happened into audiobook narration, shares her secret tricks for conquering difficult accents, a...
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Author: Listening Books, Eimear Ryan
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Author Listening Books, Eimear Ryan
Narrator Eimear Ryan
Duration 20m
An interview with Eimear Ryan, author of the novel Holding Her Breath, available to borrow from our online catalogue.
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Author: Listening Books, Cari Thomas
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Author Listening Books, Cari Thomas
Narrator Cari Thomas
Duration 35m
We chat with Cari Thomas, author of the fantasy novel Threadneedle, which is available to borrow from our online and CD libraries.
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An Interview with Rachel Marks
Author: Listening Books, Rachel Marks
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Author Listening Books, Rachel Marks
Narrator Rachel Marks
Duration 26m
We chat with Rachel Marks, author of the novel Until Next Weekend, available to borrow from the Listening Books online library.
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Author: Listening Books, Tim Weaver
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Author Listening Books, Tim Weaver
Narrator Tim Weaver
Duration 23m
An interview with Tim Weaver, author of the David Raker series, available to borrow from our online catalogue.
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Series 3, Episode 1 - Caroline O'Donoghue
Author: Listening Books, Caroline O'Donoghue
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Author Listening Books, Caroline O'Donoghue
Narrator Caroline O'Donoghue, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 1
Duration 41m
'I wanted it to look like how it feels like, and how it feels to be Irish sometimes is that you are in a murder mystery.' Caroline O'Donoghue, host of Sentimental Garbage and author of Promising Young Women, Scenes of a Graphic Nature and the forthcoming YA novel All Our Hidden Gifts, tells Jess about playing with different genres, how some endings...
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Series 3, Episode 2 - Kobna Holdbrook - Smith
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 2
Duration 38m
From April 15, 2021 Actor and audiobook narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith talks about what it was like to voice Rivers of London as his first audiobook, what he had to unlearn to do voice work and how Frank Sinatra inspired his mic technique.
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Series 3, Episode 3 - Francis Spufford
Author: Listening Books, Francis Spufford
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Author Listening Books, Francis Spufford
Narrator Francis Spufford, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 3
Duration 47m
Author Francis Spufford talks about what it's been like to launch his new novel, Light Perpetual, during a pandemic, the many talents and accents required of audiobook narrator Imogen Church, the fondness he holds for his 'unlikable' characters, and why the narrator was especially important for his historical novel Golden Hill. To top it off, he de...
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Series 3, Episode 4 - Claire Fuller
Author: Listening Books, Claire Fuller
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Author Listening Books, Claire Fuller
Narrator Jessica Stone, Claire Fuller
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 4
Duration 42m
It does play huge roles in describing the character and circumstances, but really it’s there because I love food! Author Claire Fuller talks with Jess about her latest novel, Unsettled Ground, shortlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and her third novel, the simmering, suspenseful Bitter Orange. Claire reflects on the roles m...
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Series 3, Episode 5 - David Gange
Author: Listening Books, David Gange
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Author Listening Books, David Gange
Narrator David Gange, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 5
Duration 41m
From Jul 15, 2021 'The kayak gives this incredible perspective on the world, where you are really embedded in the worlds of the species, you're surrounded by other animals, they don't respond to you in the way that they respond to humans on foot because obviously they are so much more skilled in and on the water than you are.' Writer and historia...
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Series 3, Episode 6 - Fiona Bennett and Michael Schaeffer
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Michael Schaeffer, Fiona Bennett, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 6
Duration 43m
From Aug 12, 2021 'My reading experience with poetry is that I'm in the presence of some...body and we're in that kind of potentially ... it might be that slightly late night kitchen table moment where you've sort of got through all the news and the stuff and you actually enter into where you really are, and what's going on, and what you really n...
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An Interview With David Almond
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator David Almond
Duration 12m
An interview with David Almond, author of children's books Skellig and A Song for Ella Grey. Photo credit Sarah Jane Palmer.
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An Interview With Ruth Hatfield
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Ruth Hatfield
Duration 23m
An interview with Ruth Hatfield, author of children's series Book of Storms.
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An Interview With Kiran Millwood-hargrave
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Kiran Millwood-Hargrave
Duration 17m
An interview with Kiran Millwood-Hargrave, author of children's books The Girl of Ink of Stars and The Island at the End of Everything.
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An Interview With Robert Thorogood
Author: Listening Books, Robert Thorogood
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Author Listening Books, Robert Thorogood
Narrator Robert Thorogood
Duration 22m
An interview with Robert Thorogood, author of the Death in Paradise television show and the spin-off series of novels.
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Author: Listening Books, Sarah Perry
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Author Listening Books, Sarah Perry
Narrator Sarah Perry
Duration 17m
An interview with Sarah Perry, the author of The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood. Photo credit Jamie Drew.
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An Interview With Michelle Paver
Author: Listening Books, Michelle Paver
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Author Listening Books, Michelle Paver
Narrator Michelle Paver
Duration 19m
Michelle Paver is a novelist and children's writer, a number of her books are available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library.
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An Interview With Simon Callow
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 8m
Simon is a hugely successful actor with one of the most recognisable voices in theatre and film. His narration work includes Thames Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd, available to stream, number 00386. Image c The Hanbury Agency Ltd
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Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 13h 37m
Simon Brett is most well known for his mystery crime novels featuring actor and amateur detective, Charles Paris. He has also been a radio producer for the BBC. A Reconstructed Corpse, read by the author himself, is available to download number 10556.
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An Interview With Pippa Goodhart
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Pippa Goodhart
Duration 9m
Pippa has written numerous books for children and also writes under the name Laura Owen. You can find Whizz-Bang Winnie and Other Stories, available to download in our library, number 02576.
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